Khal has set up a new web server on the company's private cloud. He has installed the security certificate necessary so that the application can be accessed by HTTPS. He isn't overly familiar with how these certificates work, so he decides to read up on the details. He learns that there is a pair of keys used to encrypt and decrypt the initial communications. Which of the following is the key that does not get sent to the browser?
A) public key
B) private key
C) secret key
D) asymmetric key

Question

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The private key is the key that does not get sent to the browser in an HTTPS setup. It remains securely stored on the server and is used to decrypt information that was encrypted with the corresponding public key.

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